The "theology" of the song is yet another human effort to make sense out of hoomin beans' relationship with God (or any other all-powerful concept more powerful than hoomins is). It reduces "God" to a hoomin-like being who would actually count on us. In other words, it makes God a character on our own level because we cannot really wrap our heads around any other level but out own.

The God I know does not "count on us," but He does expect us to handle the crap we ourselves create out of the gifts we have received.

The song is an effort also to flip folk's thinking away from "why does God allow this" and towards "why do WE allow it," which is a pretty good statement of the "right relationship" between the creator and the created.... an effort to put responsibility (and thus positive power) into the hands of the people who can DO something about the ills they (we) have created.

~Susan